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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/Jun/19 01:23, Mike Hammett wrote:<br>
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10pt; color: #000000">I've ran into many providers where they
had routers in the top 10 or 15 markets... and that was it. If
you wanted a connection in South Bend or Indianapolis or New
Orleans or Ohio or... you were backhauled potentially hundreds
of miles to a nearby big market.
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<div>More smaller POPs reduces the tromboning.</div>
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<div>More smaller POPs means that one POP's outage isn't as
disastrous on the traffic rerouting around it.</div>
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I really dislike centralized routing.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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